BRIGHTON could person unearthed different hidden gem aft the acquisition of 19-year-old Malick Yalcouye connected a five-year deal.
The midfielder near his location country, Mali, arsenic a teen to determination to the Ivory Coast and pursuit his shot dreams by joining the famed ASEC Mimosas academy which produced the Toure brothers, Gervinho and Salomon Kalou, among others.
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GettyYalcouye signed for Brighton from IFK Goteborg past summertime for £6million, having lone joined the Swedish broadside successful the February earlier for astir €400,000.
In the Swedish Allsvenskan league, Yalcouye was dubbed the adjacent N’Golo Kante owed to his quality to screen crushed and hunt the shot similar the legendary Chelsea midfielder.
Brighton were consenting to wage the hefty interest for a subordinate who had been successful Europe for little than six months.
But they instantly loaned him retired to Austrian broadside Sturm Graz, wherever helium has played 15 league games, helping his broadside apical the Austrian Bundesliga.
He’s besides played 8 times successful the Champions League, gaining invaluable acquisition connected his developmental journey.
The rationale down the determination to indebtedness him out, contempt his beardown pre-season performance, was to guarantee that his young shoulders weren’t burdened with being the grounds merchantability for Goteborg, nor tasked with replacing the likes of Moisés Caicedo and Alexis Mac Allister straight away.
Brighton had a akin program for Caicedo erstwhile they archetypal signed him from Independiente del Valle successful 2021 connected a four-year deal.
The main midfielder astatine the clip was Yves Bissouma, truthful to let Caicedo to make Brighton president Tony Bloom and the sporting directors agreed it was champion for him to spell retired connected indebtedness to Belgian broadside Beerschot.
By the clip helium returned from his indebtedness spell, helium was acceptable for the Premier League and stepped successful perfectly nether then-manager Graham Potter.
His occurrence was truthful evident that some Chelsea and Liverpool were consenting to interruption the Premier League transportation grounds to motion him.
Mac Allister besides followed a akin indebtedness improvement way earlier returning to detonate astatine the Amex.
Sun Sport sources astatine Brighton accidental the nine is precise blessed with the midfielder’s improvement truthful acold successful Austria and judge he’s up of schedule, perchance being acceptable for the Premier League squad adjacent season.
Brighton manager Fabian Hurzeler besides described him arsenic a imaginable world-class subordinate erstwhile helium archetypal arrived astatine the club.
He said, “We are truly pleased to bring Malick to the club. He is simply a talented midfielder with tons of imaginable to make into a top-class player.
“He’s excited astir this adjacent signifier of his career, and we’re looking guardant to helping him progress.”
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